Tracy Whalen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6818200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy Whalen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy |
| FAMILY NAME | Whalen |
| SIGNATURE | WHALEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taming settler colonialism
This article argues that a popular Winnie-the-Bear statue operates within the framework of family to ‘tame’ the anxieties around settler colonialism. The ostensibly benign motives for taming that the statue condones align with and consolidate those offered in dominant discourses around bear capture, taming, and captivity in Canadian spaces of human/bear encounter. In keeping with such a project, the statue works to calm any discomfort visitors mi…
High Stakes, Mistakes, and Staking Claims
Stylizing the Mundane
This article offers a detailed critical reading of Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage, a novel about nineteenth century Newfoundland. It focuses particularly on the book’s lexical and grammatical choices, and explores how novelistic style functions rhetorically to construct an aesthetic of the mundane. The author then considers how a novel, especially one that performs a style of the mundane, can be thought of as liminoid festival space and how it m…
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Stylizing the Mundane
This article offers a detailed critical reading of Bernice Morgan’s Random Passage, a novel about nineteenth century Newfoundland. It focuses particularly on the book’s lexical and grammatical choices, and explores how novelistic style functions rhetorically to construct an aesthetic of the mundane. The author then considers how a novel, especially one that performs a style of the mundane, can be thought of as liminoid festival space and how it m…
High Stakes, Mistakes, and Staking Claims
Taming settler colonialism
This article argues that a popular Winnie-the-Bear statue operates within the framework of family to ‘tame’ the anxieties around settler colonialism. The ostensibly benign motives for taming that the statue condones align with and consolidate those offered in dominant discourses around bear capture, taming, and captivity in Canadian spaces of human/bear encounter. In keeping with such a project, the statue works to calm any discomfort visitors mi…
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